Oct 2017 – Historic moments in time tumble all too regularly it seems into our lives in different ways. Yet for us in Emergency Medicine in the UK and Ireland this month can be viewed truly as one we should spend a few moments in order to savour, reflect and also to look forward.
Sept 2017 – Predicting the future has always been a tricky business as events of the last 12 months or so have proven. Writing this blog requires a small modicum of peering into the future (by about 4-6 weeks or so) but I try hard to stick to the facts I am fairly certain about.
August 2017 – August is of course a month of holidays, heat (even in Yorkshire!) and the heady atmosphere of welcoming the most junior doctors into the joys of working with us in the Emergency Department.
July 2017 – Celebrating excellence is the key theme of the next few months! Mainly because there is so much to tell and enthuse you about that I thought it would be good to focus purely on celebration – the why, how, what and where!
July 2017 – None of us can fail to have been affected by the events of the past month in Manchester and London. The terrorist events and the awful tragedy at Grenfell Tower have brought out the very worst and yet also the very, very best of humanity.
June 2016 – Much to tell from the corridors of London and other places I have managed to visit in the past month! A real highlight was the trip to Belfast to join Northern Irish colleagues at their Annual Meeting.
May 2017 – Rattling cages, battling (media) dragons and the ‘rock and roll’ of EM! These seem to have been some of the key themes of my first six months of presidency. Time has indeed flown by but amongst the wider crisis facing the NHS, there has been a clear RCEM message heard loud and clear that if governments value emergency care systems in this country (as the public seem to) then they will need to prioritise to support us and invest wisely.
April 2016 – Rattling cages, battling (media) dragons and the ‘rock and roll’ of EM! These seem to have been some of the key themes of my first six months of presidency. Time has indeed flown by but amongst the wider crisis facing the NHS, there has been a clear RCEM message heard loud and clear that if governments value emergency care systems in this country (as the public seem to) then they will need to prioritise to support us and invest wisely.
March 2017 – Measurement! As the first signs of spring begin to show it seems a key topic to think about, reflect upon and share some of my thoughts with you on. I am also influenced by the events of the past week or so (as I write this in the second week of January) which have seen the College very much on the front foot and so early in the New Year. More on that to come!
Feb 2017 – I sit writing these words in the ‘cold glow’ of early December a few weeks after the Autumn Statement by the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, trying to find some crumbs of comfort.